By: Joshua Glenn

Daniel Clowes on Ghost World… before the movie.

By: Joshua Glenn

“Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore…”

By: Mark Kingwell

His slogan could be: To the appearances themselves!

By: David Smay

He suffers exactly enough to make the joke.

By: Tor Aarestad

His musical schizophrenia can’t be contained.

By: Douglas Wolk

She’s given some of the most devastated performances ever.

By: Franklin Bruno

His stylistic mastery renders all encomia to his “voice” ridiculous.

By: Jen Collins

You’ll appreciate how good a bully he is if you imagine he’s faking it.

By: Lucy Sante

His untranslatable wordplay never fails to dazzle.

By: Brian Berger

The musical redemption of a prodigal son.

By: David Smay

Like Brando and Billie Holiday, an inescapable exemplar.

By: Patrick Cates

He punctuated class-centric British life with absurd question marks.

By: Douglas Wolk

A pop career compounded of glorious, relentless WTF.

By: Mark Kingwell

His Seagram Building made the largest aesthetic point in New York.

By: Annie Nocenti

A horde of swarthy besotted angels and devils warred for his tongue.